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Before our trips this summer, I read every single city guide I could get my hands on (me? over planning? never.) By the last city we visited, I had a search routine of trusted cool girls, blo...

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> "I turn my blessings like photographs into the light; >  >  Not-yet-dead, not-yet-lost, not-yet-taken. >  Not-yet-shattered, not-yet-sectioned, >  not-yet-strewn. >  > ...

http://samanthashorey.blogspot.com/2017/01/two-for-looking.html

Photos from last spring break in Los Angeles & more on my professional portfolio . (photos) on film with Pentax K1000 | my dear friend Christopher, at the Getty Museum. Wilsh...

http://samanthashorey.blogspot.com/2016/04/la-on-sharing-photos-of-love-lost.html

I took a roll of film to get developed and found this set of photos, 3 months apart, both taken at my sister's farm. The last Bar-b-que of summer, the first frost of fall.  (photos) ...

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make friends with East Coast girls: they're the best at fall activities and they know all the different names of plaids (black watch vs. royal stuart vs. buffalo check). (photos) on...

http://samanthashorey.blogspot.com/2015/10/pumpkin-carving.html

(photos) on film with Pentax K1000 | Golden Gardens in Seattle, WA (p.s) more for | lake light , boat decks , farmers markets , portland scenes

http://samanthashorey.blogspot.com/2015/08/two-for-summer-sights.html

I saw you on the street, two-thousand miles from where we'd known each other. For the first time since I'd stood on the curb of Mississippi Ave. and watched as you started your truck. It was ...

http://samanthashorey.blogspot.com/2015/08/time-isnt-kind-or-unkind.html

"are you bad at sharing the bed?" I said "no, well ... I don't think so." "okay." I said, and crawled under the covers. He rolled onto his back and left his arm across the pillow and I tuck...

http://samanthashorey.blogspot.com/2015/07/on-sleeping-next-to-someone.html

On The Event of The 10 Year Reunion  At 18, I had some pretty big dreams. I think we all did then. And, there was a clear next step for how to get there. We wouldn’t feel those well no...

http://samanthashorey.blogspot.com/2015/07/what-10-years-taught-me.html

> "I'm very scared, buster. Yes, at last. Because it could go on > forever. Not knowing whats yours until you throw it away."  Truman Capote,  Breakfast at Tiffany's...

http://samanthashorey.blogspot.com/2015/07/capote-on-belonging-to-eachother.html

Iron & Wine's Kiss Eachother Clean came out in 2011, when I was living in my studio apartment in Portland with Eli. We both loved that album; listened to it all the way through, nonstop, on...

http://samanthashorey.blogspot.com/2015/05/weekend-song-tree-by-river.html

> "Yes," I say. "This is Los Angeles. The best in the world at waiting > wait here." Chandler Burr, You or Someone Like You (photos) on film with Pentax K1000 | p.s. the ...

http://samanthashorey.blogspot.com/2015/04/been-there-griffith-observatory.html

it might be spring if ...  it's warm enough to sit on the fire escape. it's light past 5:00. the sun hits your face on the subway platform. there are cherry blossoms in a...

http://samanthashorey.blogspot.com/2015/03/signs-of-spring-in-nyc.html

a winter hike to Poet's Seat in Greenville, MA. We brought a baguette, 2 beers, and 1 bad attitude (mine) when the trail was twice as long as the estimate. (photos) on film with Penta...

http://samanthashorey.blogspot.com/2015/03/snowy-hike-toy-new-england-town.html

I'm not too into football, but I do believe in places. And when your city's in the big game, you watch the big game. You root for your city. This year the Super Bowl is like a metaphor for my...

http://samanthashorey.blogspot.com/2015/01/weekenders-east-vs-west.html

(photos) on film with Pentax K1000 | backyard cottage in Brentwood, Los Angeles.

http://samanthashorey.blogspot.com/2015/01/hacienda-style.html

Seattle felt like moving backwards. The weather, the neighborhood streets lined with craftsman homes -- they're basically like Oregon. Like the first part of my life, where I grew up. Like th...

http://samanthashorey.blogspot.com/2015/01/weekenders-you-r-in-love.html

Being in grad school is weird. It’s weird in a lot of ways that I keep meaning to write about, but keep not writing about, because grad school. I’m 27 years old. I have 4 roommates. Alter...

http://samanthashorey.blogspot.com/2014/12/being-in-grad-school-is-weird.html

> "Wake it every day, say, > 'Good morning.' Then > make the coffee. Warm > the cups. Don't expect much > of the day.  > That's more > than you need. We can > ...

http://samanthashorey.blogspot.com/2014/11/two-for-writer-in-brooklyn.html

the tail end of apple season at my sister's farm in Salem, OR.  After packing up my apartment in Massachusetts, I had two weeks before I moved to Seattle. I spent most of the time ...

http://samanthashorey.blogspot.com/2014/11/just-barely-september-in-salem.html

On my last week in Massachusetts, the very edges of the sugar maples had started to turn orange. I noticed on my daily walk down main street (actually, the very same tree that I took a photo o...

http://samanthashorey.blogspot.com/2014/11/on-claiming-place.html

the first few film photos of my time in Seattle, in colors of gray of course. (photos) on film with Pentax K1000 | skyline, Samuel, and the best oyster bar on earth . 

http://samanthashorey.blogspot.com/2014/11/a-first-look-at-life-in-seattle.html

In Amherst, Leah lived with a group of (self-described) polyamorous witches who called their house the Crystal Coven. You should see Emily Dickinson's house from the front stoop. (I wan...

http://samanthashorey.blogspot.com/2014/10/amok-amok-amok.html

About every three or four days this summer, the Massachusetts heat would culminate in a thunderstorm. One night a week I'd roll the host stand inside and spend my shift in the dim, air condit...

http://samanthashorey.blogspot.com/2014/10/weekend-song-ribs-growing-old.html

Here we are, it's October.  It's just now that am I able to unpack the summer months; things I saw and things I did (... and unpacking literally too, in this case.)  Summer alw...

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